mississippi music foundation

Our mission

The Mississippi Music Foundation’s mission is to provide education through seminars, internet, and conferences thus enabling individuals to become conversant with multiple genres,music technology, musical instruments and Mississippi Music History.

You do not have to be a member of the Mississippi Music Foundation to submit entries for the 2018 Mississippi Music Awards. The voting process will consist of fan voting.

The Call for Entries will allow each voter to nominate up to 3 Artists or Bands in each category. Multiple submissions will be deleted. All submissions will be tracked for quality purposes.

Once you have submitted your Call for Entries ballot you will not be able to change or modify it in any way. The Foundation reserves the right to remove or disqualify any entry that is inappropriate or not entered properly into the right category.

You may nominate any artists or group that lives in or is from the state of Mississippi. All nominated artists must have a recorded original song that can be found on an internet site or direct submission.

EXPLANATION OF AWARDS PROCEDURES:

1. All citizens of Earth are allowed to submit their suggestions for artistic Call for Entries granted the artist has been a resident of the state of Mississippi.

2. Once the Call for Entries deadline has been met, the submissions will be prepared by the Foundation Artistic Board and will be reviewed for eligibility. Eligibility dates are from December 2016 through January, 2017. If the submission does not meet the Foundation’s quality guidelines or standards it will be removed from nomination consideration.

3. Once the Call for Entries are been properly screened, they will be placed into a separate voting format and made available to the general public.

4. There will be two rounds of voting. During the first round of voting, all artist submissions will be available for voting in the appropriate category. After the first round of voting, the names of the top ten nominees of each category will be released to the general public for the final round of voting. Once the deadline for voting, on the second round of nominations, has been completed the Foundation’s artistic committee will review and place the top ten nominees into a ballot format and submit them to the President of the Foundation’s Artistic Review Committee.

5. Once the voting committee has been selected, the top ten nominees from each category will be required to submit an exemplar of their work to the President of the Review Committee. Nominees can submit their work in Mp3, Mov, YouTube, Wav, CD or DVD formats. The President of the Review Committee will then compile all exemplars and will deliver them to members of the voting committee to be played on MSMF Radio.

Note: You will not be able to speak to any members of the Committee or Mississippi Music Foundation membership about your votes! You will only consult with them if you have any questions on how to vote or if there is a technical issue with one of the submissions.

6. The final five nominees, along with the winners, will be announced during the awards show and not before. (If you are in the top nominees list, you will not know if you have made it to the final top five until the night of the awards broadcast. Additionally, no artist can be considered in multiple categories without justification and qualification.

7. All nominees are required to be in attendance. Every effort will be made to notify each nominee. Refusal to confirm or inability to contact will result in disqualification of nomination. Only Retro Artists of the Year are permitted to not be in attendance as this award can be given posthumously in many cases or the artist has retired and unable to travel. However, every effort must be given to securing the artists appearance.

The Mississippi Music Foundation's voting platform is used by permission from our sister company, The Artists Music Guild, Inc.

Thank you for your nomination.................

Mississippi Youth Chamber Orchestra

Mississippi Youth Chamber Orchestra

The youth are dedicated in their pursuit of music education and work hard to enhance their knowledge

while gaining a lifetime of pleasure and appreciation.

Live performance

valuable hands-on experience

All members of the Mississippi Youth Chamber Orchestra will be given regular opportunities to play in front of audiences of all sizes. From small venues to events, concert halls and more- playing in front of people will become second-natured.

incentive program

acknowledgement for hard-work

The program is designed to encourage and reward the members of these musical groups who participate in live performancesfor a minimum of two years. Each member who meets the requirements will be given money to be held in escrow and disbursed when they leave the orchestraor ensemble. The funds can be used at their discretion for future education or where needed.

professional instruction

Learn From the PRO'S

Members will be provided Master Classes with special guest instructors, conductors and section leaders in addition to group and one-on-one Instruction from Director Peter Whitham, having over 50 years of classical music experience.

MSMF Radio

MSMF Radio

Listen to great Mississippi Musicians of all styles

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If you would like to be featured on MSMF Radio, let us know! If you would like to know the Song Title or the Artist ask us. If you would like your music considered for MSMF Radio or if you would like to be interviewed for our Artist Series please fill out the form below or give us a call at 901-487-0754.

Affiliates

Affiliates

We are also proud affiliates with Youth Symphony Media (YSM), "founded in 2014 in San Francisco Bay Area, CA, is one of the first online media for young classical musicians in the world." Click their logo visit their site.

We are proud partners with The Artists Music Guild, "established to help in the understanding, appreciation and to advance the contributions of the arts to American culture - from the artistic genius' of the current day; to the technical legends of the past; and to those still unimagined artistic breakthroughs of future generations." Watch the video below to learn more and click their logo to visit their site!